The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-11-04

I and gave it to the cOlored porter with tie
request that he carry it to MIR. Petermenn
at once. He did so. 1t read; by the time
YOU read this ] will be in the bottom OF the
st. Johns river. Clarence A. Hill" As
soon as the note was read Mr.. Petermann
at once proceeded to hunt for the young
man. but without result. crowd made
search, but nothing was found. There IS no
doubt that he carried out his intention
Hill was a married man about ~ years OF
age. His wife Is now in Tennessee lie IS
rative of Evansville, Ind, and has resided
in Palatlla several years. Nothing unusual
was noticed in his conduct lately de has
said several times, however, that he felt like
drowning himself. but nothing was thought
of it, The cause of the deed IS not
known, as he seemed to get along well with
everyone. He was unassuming IN his man
ner He married his wife in Tennessee two
or three years ago.
Tuesday afternoon at Millview, w. X.
Faux shot Frank Butler, colored, The row
started in a bar room. The load was buck
shot, and some of the charge tore Buffers
left jaw from his face Faulk then left th-
saloon and shortly thereafter, was met by
! two colored men, who laid hold of him, culS-
ing and swearing all sorts of vengeance on
him. Butler, who, it appears was not so
| badly hurt as one would imagine, then came
up, and, beginning his abuse again, com
menced prodding at Faux with his knife,
the other two colored men retaining their
! hold on Faux all the while. What might
| have happened to Faux, had there
been no interference from another
| source, will never be known, but certain 1t
| is that, before their threats could be carried
into execution, Ben Brown, a colored deputy
! sheriff, put in an appearance, and, resculng
| Faulk from the clutches Of his captors, took
! him back to the barroom. In few minutes
| the barroom was surrounded by mob of
coored men threatening to kill Faux, and
| the doors and windows of the building were
closed and barred. The mob made an at
tempt to break in, but the Deputy Sheriff,
! having reloaded the gun, gave the outsiders
| to understand that the bursting of door
or window meant death to one or more of
them, and they kept aloof, keeping up
| TRADE of abuse, however, all the time, and
vowing to have Faulk's life. Faux was
finally lodged in Jail.
In Wednesday mornings NEWS was
given full account of the discovery in a
swamp in East Gainesville of box contain
ing the remains of a white infant also of
the action taken by Sheriff Wienges and
coroners Jury. After the Jury had Invcs-
tigated as far as possible at that time, they
adjourned until Tuesday morning Sheriff
| Wenges. in the meantime, was not idle,
T0ut went TO work to investigate a clew
which had been brought to bis attention.
He had not investigated far before he got
sufficient evidence to Justify him i'll arrest
ing d young woman by the name of Nora
Jones and her mother Margaret Jones, also
Sam and Annie Lewis colored) The three
latter were arrested for supposed completely
in the affair. The two white women were
taken to jail, although both women de-
clared that the young woman had never
been mother. In the morning. when
brought before the jury, the mother of the
young woman admitted thai her daughter
had, about month ago. given birth to an
Legitimate child, that it had lived two days
and died a natural death; that the birth of
the child was known of only by three col
ored people, Dr. j. A. Parker, and Lewis
and his wife, and that they the mother and
grandmother concluded to still continue to
practice secrecy by ky keeping quiet about
the child's death. The above evidence was
corroborated by Annie Lewis, who was in
Jones' house when the child was very sick
and just previous to its death. Sam Lewis
testified to having acted as undertaken, by
carrying the body at night and burying it
where it was found Monday evening The
verdict of the jury was that the child
came to its death from unknown
causes, and that all four of the parties
were guilty of the misdemeanor of conceal
ing the death of human being In the
afternoon the parties were taken before
the law was plain that none but Nora Jones,
the mother of the child, could be held, the
court dismissed Margaret Jones, Sam and
Annie Lewis, but held Nora Jones to
answer to the grand jury in bond of $780,
The bail was furnished by kind-hearted
citizens. The Jones family consists only of
Nora and her mother. They formerly lived
near Bronson, and have resided here only
few months.
Tho Of ho Oh
keep Indian river people supplied with kero-
sene oil, lard, whisky anu baby carriages
for months to come. The coast is strewn
with boxes, barrels and parcels in all direc-
tlOns. Those men who saw the steamer in
distress from the river Friday, FASTENED to
the coast and gathered the cargo together in
heaps Tor three days. One dozen men have
been perched upon the stuff each has saved
waiting for Capt. Thomas s. Eells, the I'M
derwriters' agent, to receive the salvage or
to pay him most any time he sees fit.
Among the stuff on the coast are 1000
barrels of lard, ten barrels of Bourbon
whisky, twenty-five kegs of whisky, 100
baby carriages, several hundred barrels of
potatoes, flour and picked pork, and sew
eral cases of nickle-plated coffin handles
and ornaments. Ii is reported that a case
of gold watches, case of pistols and 100
clocks were washed ashore and made off
with by their finders. There is a regular
| scramble for the cargo, which was insured
for Sl50,000. Capt. Eells will sell the cargo
on the beach Friday at public auction. but
in the meantime Brevard county has gone
wet again and whisky is suffering terri
| bly,, Several vessels have reaches Titusville
with goods saved. Men carry or roll the
stuff from the coast to Indian river, load it
in boats and make off. Capt Eells seized
| all that came to consisting of barrels of
whisky, lard, calico and dress goods. FRI
days sale has been advertised and a bic
crowd is expected. Capt. John Quincy
| who reached Ttusville Wednesday, SAYS
the Captain of the Panama told him that
the vessel had only twenty-f five passengers
nearly all circus people, who had two ele-
plants and two horses. He says the men at
the wheel and tbs lookout were snoozing,
and ran the vessels nose 3 feet out of water
on the beach. The Panama's Cap
tain had to throw out all her cargo to get
| off. He sent two officers to Titusville
who purchased 500 worth of provisions
When off, the Panama steamed out into
deep water, gathered few barrels of lard
and oil and met the steamer Denny with
two officers at the inlet She was ashore
from Thursday night until Sunday morn
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